The Crittenden Automotive Library was officially started 5 September 2006 and named for founder/owner Bill Crittenden. Orginally CarsAndRacingStuff.com (forming the acronym CARS) was registered 12 December 2005 to be an online hobby store, but it never got started. Instead, the domain was used to post car pictures, articles about collecting & NASCAR, a database of model kits & die cast cars, and an Encyclopedia was started. When the partner officially pulled out, these sections of CarsAndRacingStuff.com became the beginning of The Crittenden Automotive Library. An expanded history of the beginning of the Library is on the CarsAndRacingStuff.com page.

Featured Images were originally "Photos of the Month" started in 2007. Currently they're the small background images behind the Navigation links in the upper left corner of the page and rotate randomly upon each page load.

1966 Dodge ChargerThis image is one of my early favorites in the Library. Most car shows don't have great backgrounds, and most of the time the cars' hoods are up anyway. This was taken at a car show in a field, and this car was parked off by itself a little bit, hood down, nothing behind it. It's one of the first pictures I took that I thought really looked good.Created April 201228KB

2000 Pontiac Trans AmThis picture is from The Cars Time Forgot show in Delavan in 2012. The lake made a great background for a lot of pictures throughout the day. At the end of the show I asked Kim Gableson if she had brought out her new Trans Am, and as the lakeside was emptying out I offered to take pictures of it down there. She and a Streeters friend brought their cars over to the lake after the show for some nice pictures by Lake Delavan. Both of them also posed with their cars, and since Kim is a good friend, she drove a Pontiac, and I really wanted to get a Streeters shirt into the rotation of Featured Images, this picture had to be included.Background Image added to rotation November 2012

Dave Crittenden and a Vintage Race CarThis picture is of my father, taken by my mother, at an Indy Car race at The Milwaukee Mile in the early 1970's. As far as I can tell, there were several vintage cars on display there that weekend in what as a precursor to what is now the Millers at Milwaukee Vintage Indy Car weekend. From the Crittenden Family Collection.Background Image added to rotation December 2012

1964 Rambler American 440 ConvertibleOne of my favorite cars of all time on the side of Lake Delavan in Wisconsin for the annual The Cars Time Forgot show. Background Image added to rotation July 201360KB